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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Allow Custom SQL in TEP/TEMS accept SUBSTR, COUNT(*) and GROUP BY SQL functions

The purpose of this idea is to allow TEP/TEMS run queries that summarize the DB2 z/OS thread status by using only the first 4 characteres of the package name. These first 4 characters indicate the application name the package belongs to, so this w...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Monitor Disk I/O latency metrics

Currently, we don't show metrics related to Disk Latency. We don’t collect I/O latency related operations. This would be needed for business purposes.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Hot-Plugging Memory and CPUs on Virtual Machines (AHV)

Currently a reboot is required on virtual machines running on AHV to hot add resources. Nutanix allows hot add capabilities for CPU and Memory without a reboot natively. Turbonomic should be able to leverage the API and do the same without requiri...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Need periodic reports in different formats

Dear Colleagues, we have a constant demand from our customers regarding reporting capabilities. Please consider creating additional sharing option for custom dashboards. Something like periodic report, that generates a PDF (CSV, XLS, Plain text) f...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

AIOps new data connector for AWS CloudWatch Logs

AWS CloudWatch has logs as well as metrics for applications which are collected by its own ETL services. So, in the case of Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps is installed on AWS, it can be a huge benefit for our AIOps customers to leverage CloudWatch Log...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

The ChatOps feature must provide the multi-channel notification for applications operated different teams respectively.

This idea has already added here by GwangSu Kim, the former CMS of LG CNS.--> https://automation-management.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IRISCART-I-805 As I am the CSM in charge of LG CNS currently, adding the idea again here for the Clarification. Chat...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Azure extension install & update

The only way to install and update the Instana Azure extension is my manuell clicking in the Azure webUI. This is not a scalable solution if you have hundreds of App Services. There should be a way to install och update the Instana Azure extension...
10 months ago in Instana / .NET 3 Planned for future release

Create an Account level policy entity type

When accounts have many different resource entity types, it's very cumbersome to create a generic policy for half a dozen resource types across dozens of accounts. If there was an Account policy type, high-level settings such as Action Generation:...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Enable a manual override to stop failing actions in the queue

Currently if there is an issue with permissions or a policy conflict, actions that were manually executed will continue to retry (appears to be indefinitely?) There should be a way to cancel that action so that the logs aren't filled with one-time...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0